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Kudos for this surprising success abound. Michele Fitzsimmons is clearly an effective director. The show, with few exceptions, flows smoothly from scene to scene, and many jokes which could have gone unnoticed were accentuated by actors' use of voice inflection or body language. Also expert are the choreographers: Diane Mullen, Ellen Fern, and Dana Smetherman. They've turned an unusually small stage into an adequate forum for elaborate song and dance...
...subtle texture, effortlessly impelled by Gardener's deft editing, reveals that "it" is the sense of death that pervades daily life. Like cinema verite, "it" is based on an oxymoron. Forest of Bliss actually reasserts life by concentrating on the ceremony of dying. Vitality and color, charisma and charm, abound in the visages of the living inhabitants, most notably the fire seller, whose joie de vivre consumes the screen. And this juxtaposition of life with death necessitates audience observation, not verbal explanation...
...quite differently in foreign countries, Fish says. First, squash is a game for the masses abroad, not just for the upper-middle classes as it is in America. According to Fish, foreign governments view squash as a "way to bring kids out of the ghetto." Public indoor courts abound, and are regularly used by everyone...
...classic Japanese tea ceremony. Two central concepts of tea culture are sabi and wabi. Sabi conveys the dull sheen of posterity, the finish, mystery and allure acquired by an object that has been well worn. Wabi suggests the use of a humble material for a higher purpose. Both qualities abound in Miyake's best clothes: his coats and dresses cut from one piece of cloth, a man's sweater that looks as if it could warm a wandering trapper but hangs on the shoulders no more heavily than a strand of loose hair...
...borrowings from Risky Business abound. The theft is evident immediately in the Tangerine Dream style opening score. By the time we hear the "Mannish Boy" of Muddy Waters accompanying the sports car's emergence from the house garage and the Epicurean philosophizing of Curtis Armstrong, who is again teaching his friend how to say "What the fuck," we know we are witnessing full-scale felony...